Ah, the wonders of open borders! Part Whatever

We conservatives have been noting for almost a decade now that it's insane for our government to fight terrorism by groping white-haired old ladies in airports while the feds leave our borders open to immigrants from countries hostile to us.

Here's a shocker! Yet another such person has been accused in an attempted car-bombing. This paragraph says all you need to know:

Mohamed Osman Mohamud, 19, a Somali-born U.S. citizen, was arrested at 5:42 p.m., 18 minutes before the tree lighting was to occur, on an accusation of attempting to use a weapon of mass destruction. The felony charge carries a maximum sentence of life in prison and a $250,000 fine.

If this kid is 19 and was born in Somalia, that means the U.S. let him and his family come here even after violence had erupted in that country in the early 1990s. That fighting led to the infamous "Blackhawk Down" incident in which hundreds of armed Somalis ambushed U.S. peacekeeping troops.

Why is anyone surprised that someone from a culture that hates Americans would try to kill Americans?

Meanwhile if this kid had gotten onto an airplane, he would be treated exactly the same by the TSA as a grandmother or a 5-year-old girl.

Actually, he would be unlikely to try a suicide-bombing though, and for a rather obvious reason. As this and the attempted Times Square car-bombing illustrate, it's too easy for a militant Muslim fundamentalist to kill hundreds of Americans without killing himself.

So why did we leave our country open to immmigration by Islamic radicals?

I'm sure some liberal will be explaining that in the comments section. I'm all ears.

SURE ENOUGH, some of my liberal friends are weighing in with their wisdom about how we shouldn't profile people with links to Somalia,

After all, it's been five whole months since the Star-Ledger ran this article:

NEWARK - Two New Jersey men intent on killing American troops were arrested Saturday as they boarded flights to link up with a virulent jihadist group in Somalia, authorities said.

And as for profiling Muslims fundamentalists, why would we want to do that? Perhaps because, as this essay on the Center for Immigration Studies site notes, they might be linked to radicalism:

The German study, based on thousands of interviews with boys 14-16, ... concluded that "male supremacist views and a preference for violent videos and computer games link closely with mosque attendance among the young....the study also argued that agnostic migrant children were the fastest to integrate, readily considering themselves as German and aiming for the highest educational achievements. By contrast, only 16 per cent of young Muslims aimed for the highest school-completion certificate."

The writer goes on to note: "You can bet that our government would not even consider funding such a useful study."